...Jenann Ismael Frisch Mathias , Causal Reasoning in Physics . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2014 . viii + 256 pp . © 2016 by Cornell University 2016 In 1913 Bertrand Russell argued that contrary to what most of us presume, the causal structure of the world...

...Brendan de Kenessey Laden Anthony Simon , Reasoning: A Social Picture . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2012 . xi + 283 pp . © 2016 by Cornell University 2016 Anthony Simon Laden's Reasoning: A Social Picture investigates how we reason with each other in conversation about...

...Margaret Gilbert Keith Graham, Practical Reasoning in a Social World: How We Act Together. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 202. Cornell University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 113, No. 1 (January 2004...

...Joseph E. Earley © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 Bartha Paul , By Parallel Reasoning: The Construction and Evaluation of Analogical Arguments . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2010 . x + 356 pp . BOOK REVIEWS Paul Bartha, By Parallel...

...Michael E. Bratman Cornell University 2000 RULING PASSIONS: A THEORY OF PRACTICAL REASONING. By Simon Blackburn. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 334. BOOK REVEWS entails the existence of final causes...

...Christopher Hitchcock CAUSALITY: MODELS, REASONING AND INFERENCE. By Judea Pearl. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 384. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110, No. 4 (October 2001) CAUSALITY...

...Adam Morton Christopher McMahon, Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 251. Cornell University 2003 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 112, No. 1 (January 2003...

...A. N. Williams Denys Turner, Faith, Reason, and the Existence of God . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xix + 271 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Allan Gibbard, Thinking How to Live. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. ix + 302...

... . Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ramachandran, M. 1997 . “A Counterfactual Analysis of Causation.” Mind 106 : 263 -77. ____. 1998 . “The M-Set Analysis of Causation.” Mind 107 : 465 -71. ____. 2004a. “Indeterministic Causation...

...Joshua Gert Cornell University 2007 Normative Strength and the Balance of Reasons Joshua Gert Florida State University 1. Normative Reasons, Normative Roles, and Normative Strength...

...Kenny Easwaran Jody Azzouni, Tracking Reason: Proof, Consequence, and Truth . New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. vi + 248 pp. Cornell University 2008 BOOK REVIEWS problem of self-knowledge is. Despite these reservations, Speaking My Mind should...

...Talbot Brewer Sergio Tenenbaum, Appearances of the Good: An Essay on the Nature of Practical Reason. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. vii + 315 pp. © 2008 by Cornell University 2008 xxx prjuly2008-04 October 21, 2008 11:39 BOOK...

...Andrew Reisner Skorupski John , The Domain of Reasons . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 . xxii+525 pp. © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 As in Helene Hanff's (1970) England, one can find in John Skorupski's book The Domain of Reasons whatever one is looking...

...Stefan Sienkiewicz Perin Casey , The Demands of Reason: An Essay on Pyrrhonian Scepticism . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2010 . 130 pp. © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 To give a complete and completely consistent account of Pyrrhonian skepticism as it is found...

...Christian Onof; Dennis Schulting In his argument for the possibility of knowledge of spatial objects, in the Transcendental Deduction of the B-version of the Critique of Pure Reason , Kant makes a crucial distinction between space as “form of intuition” and space as “formal intuition...

... all seem to be legal or quasi-legal (the Major's commands have priority over the Captain's, and so forth). But I therefore worry that the generality of Horty's framework glosses over important differences between legalistic reasoning on the one hand, where talk of “rules” seems more natural...

...Samuel Levey It can be shown by means of a paradox that, given the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR), there is no conjunction of all contingent truths. The question is, or ought to be, how to interpret that result: Quid sibi velit? A celebrated argument against PSR due to Peter van Inwagen...

...Karen Ng © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 James Kreines's Reason in the World is a welcome and exemplary text in the midst of increasing interest in Hegel's Science of Logic for scholars working in English. Combining historical scholarship with contemporary issues in analytic...

...Andrea Christofidou Thus in spite of my reservations, I recommend The Will to Reason . It's an exemplar of a well-researched and meticulously documented piece of scholarship on very difficult terrain, which stimulates and provokes, and deserves serious attention. Ragland C. P...

...Alex Worsnip Snedegar Justin , Contrastive Reasons . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2017 . xiv + 149 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 Justin Snedegar's book Contrastive Reasons is a deft, lean, and elegant explication and defense of contrastivism about reasons...